Gupta script

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Gupta

Type

Abugida

Spoken languages

Sanskrit

Time period

c. 400–?

Parent systems

Proto-Canaanite alphabet [a]
 → Phoenician alphabet [a]
  → Aramaic alphabet [a]
   → Brāhmī
    → Gupta

Child systems

Nāgarī
Śāradā
Siddhaṃ

[a] The Semitic origin of the Brahmic scripts is not universally agreed upon.
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The Gupta script (or Gupta Brahmi) was used for writing Sanskrit and is associated with the Gupta Empire of India which was a period of material prosperity and great religious and scientific developments. The Gupta script was descended from Brahmi and gave rise to the Siddham script.

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